Irving Ravetch Quotes

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Irving Ravetch

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• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • American
  • High
  • Water

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Simple
  • Woman
  • Hands

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Day
  • End
  • Cheating

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• A good thing never ends.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Never
  • Good Thing

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

  

  Dominik Garcia-Lorido
  • People
  • Life

• Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kids

• You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Natural

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody